On this week’s Demo:listen we usher in the end of it all with Mälmo’s Ultra Silvam.

Hideous Divinity reflect on the power of music on “Sub Specie Aeternitatis.”

We spent one hour in the new Interactive Metal Genres Graph and documented our findings.

Get familiar with every band on Decibel Metal and Beer Fest before it happens with our samplers on Bandcamp and Spotify! 

The Ditch And The Delta hit you with a slow, sludgy outburst.

Valborg continue to experiment with their brand of progressive death/doom on their new album, Endstrand. 

Incendiary unleashed its head-turning sophomore full-length Cost of Living all the way back in 2013, but the Long Island quintet clearly has not spent the ensuing four years soothing the savage beast: Thousand Mile Stare is a staggeringly ferocious, relentlessly virulent slab of sterling, forward-thinking, put-the-entire-scene-on-notice, next gen hardcore.   

Metal & Beer tickets are SOLD OUT! General admission tickets are still available — get them now! 

Impure Wilhelmina are streaming the first track from their new album, Radiation. 

Consisting of members from both Wake and Seminary, easily two of Canada’s best grind bands, you may be skeptical about this turn towards “Blackened doom.” But their five-song debut goes way beyond what anyone is expecting.